Transportation
SpaceX Capsule Set to Rescue Stuck Astronauts Reaches ISS
- Spacecraft has smaller crew to make room for Starliner duo
- SpaceX Crew-9 to fly US astronaut, Russian cosmonaut
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SpaceX launched a two-person crew to the International Space Station, the start of a mission to bring home two NASA astronauts stuck in orbit after flying on Boeing Co.’s Starliner spacecraft.
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov took off inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon from Cape Canaveral, Florida, just after 1 p.m. on Saturday. The Crew-9 capsule docked with the ISS on Sunday at roughly 5:30 p.m. Eastern time and Hague and Gorbunov entered the ISS about 90 minutes later.